SustainablyAlpha January Edition

The Bottom Line
The SDG 3 implementation of “good health and well-being” simultaneously addresses the
biomedical field and health-related research in an extensive way, addressing not only
their topics and habits but also their relationships with civil society. SDG 3 questions and
sometimes revolutionizes disciplinary knowledge; it demands a higher interdisciplinarity,
according to the One Health/EcoHealth approach, which already exists in the fields of
ecology and evolutionary biology, in order to meet the challenges and compromises of
new directions of scientific research and practices. This emerging notion will permit
younger generations, who will constitute new decision-makers, to be sensitized to
current problems that can severely affect their own future. This constitutes a strong
method of teaching and enabling participation in action plans. In fact, the types of
scientific and medical approaches that we use are passed down from an earlier period
and organize our relationships with decision makers, politicians and citizens by placing
the discipline in context, first and foremost. The aims of sustainable development invite
us to position ourselves differently, according to the new demands that currently
confront national and international research policies.
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